Raph Crouan, Startupbootcamp IoT MD | Connected Devices Program, speaking at DCU Alpha, May 30th

By @SimonCocking. Great preview interview with Ralph Crouan, Managing Director Startupbootcamp IoT who will be speaking on the panel “IoT Acceleration/Incubation, how to scale up and grow your IoT businesses ” at Dublin City University Alpha Innovation Campus, on May 30th. Learn more by coming to the DCU / ITN IoT event on May 30th, last few tickets available here.

1 min pitch for what you are doing now?

Startupbootcamp IoT is now recruiting for it’s second year Innovation program & looking for disruptive Industrial IoT & Impactful Consumer IoT founders around the world (details here)

We are also looking for additional Corporate Partners that are willing to jump on the innovation waggon with a global brand as Startupbootcamp and learn by doing with the best of breeds of IoT Entrepreneurs over the next 2 years.

How were the last 12 months, what worked well, what didn’t move as quickly as you would have liked?

We closed our 1st year program & had a very successful cohort with already one of the startup closing their funding round not even 2 weeks post Demo Day. This year brought a great deal of learning for us as we saw the need to target more aggressively the B2B market or Industrial IoT space. We therefore modify our recruitment strategy to accommodate for 80% IIoT & 20% Impact Consumer IoT.

What are your plans for the future?

To keep on supporting the IoT ecosystem as a whole & enabling rockstar founders to get to market faster via the support of our Mentors, Corporate partners & investors.

What will you be talking about at this event? 

IoT 2.0 or the promise of IoT finally coming to us / the roles of Accelerators in that space

Short List for the Irish Tech News IoT Awards 2017 Announced!

What inspired you to attend it?

Invited & always looking to get closer to the Irish ecosystem !

Which influencers and websites do you follow to keep up to date with the latest developments?

All things IoT Related / Medium posts / Facebook.
Obviously all tech news
Influencers such as Alexandra Deschamps

How can people find out more about what you are working on?

Simple
1st our website
https://www.startupbootcamp.org/accelerator/iot-london/

Also my latest blog about that IoT 2.0 new era here :

Finally Twitter = @raphcrouan

Anything else you’d like to add / we should have asked?

Looking fwd to meet exciting founders & corporate partners alike
You can contact le at raph@startupbootcamp.org

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